United States presidential election, 1874

The United States presidential election, 1874 was held from 3 July 1874 to 1 January 1875, when the conservative US Democratic Party won the vote by a large margin. The election led to four more years of conservative government in the United States, with the Democrats winning the vast majority of states; the majority of US Republican Party supporters were located in eastern Oregon, southern Indiana and Illinois, western Wisconsin, eastern Ohio, southern West Virginia, western Maryland, southeastern Pennsylvania, and all of New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. The Democrats' main support bases were coastal Maryland, central Tennessee, much of Oklahoma, parts of Nebraska, northern Mississippi and Alabama, the "inland empire" region of California, and much of the West and Midwest. The result of the election was a Democratic victory with 73.97% of the popular vote, defeating the Republicans' 25.38% and easily crushing the US Socialist Party's .03% and the Radical Republicans' .62%. The Republicans lost some upper house seats as a result of the election, with the Democrats gaining a 56.01% majority in the US House of Representatives (Southern Democrats accounted for 11.19%) and the Republicans slumping down to 26.74% (2.82% belonged to the Radical Republicans). The socialists had 17.25% of the upper house, the largest increase in the government (1.15% upwards from the last year).